From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T08:46:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What does *var mean?

darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the dblack@wobblini.net:
> 
> 
>>>**kwargs will collect them in a hash.
>>
>>When you say "will"... do you mean in the future?  Is that documented
>>somewhere?  I can't puzzle out the reasoning behind it.
> 
> 
> Eh? Are you just poking fun at me or what?
> 
> **kwargs collects them in a hash.
> 
> Better?
> 

Haha... I don't think he was poking fun at you. He really
didn't know whether you were using a "real" future tense
or not.

Funny, because I had a conversation with him about my
copyeditor and this very issue.

FWIW, I used the "pseudo-future" tense a lot in the book,
and the CE always changed it to strict present. In some
cases, I changed it back.


Hal